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Microsoft Confidential

SSRS Report Builder 3.0 Overview & Demo

Tony Harris Principal Technology Strategist

Microsoft


Agenda

Top 10 New Features in SSRS R2 and Report

Builder 3.0

Demo: Create visual SSRS report from scratch

using the new tool


In this session, we are going to…

Include

Quick Report Builder overview and demo for power

users

Jump start training and demo of how to start from

scratch in RB 3.0

Not include

A thorough SSRS training

Security and all features of SSRS


Top 10 Reasons to Use Report Builder 3.0 & SSRS R2

10 Empower your users with managed self service reporting

9 Enhanced report viewer

8 Share and collaborate

7 Integration with current development & collaboration tools

6 Part of an end to end solution for your data

5 Rich data sources reach…

4 Flexible report layout

3 Coolest data visualizations in its class

2 Maps

1 Denali


Business User Experience

Microsoft Business Intelligence Get more out of products you already own

Business Collaboration Platform

Information Platform

Information Platform

Analysis Services

Reporting Services

Integration Services

Master Data

Data Mining Services

Data Warehousing

Integrated Content and Collaboration

Thin Clients

Dashboards

BI Search

Content Management

Compositions

Familiar User Experience

Self-service Access and Insight

Data Exploration and Analysis

Predictive Analysis

Data Visualization

Contextual Visualization


Microsoft Business Intelligence

6

Business Intelligence with the world’s most popular business

productivity suite and most widely deployed information platform

IT management

& developer

productivity

Empower

Your People

Improve

Organizational

Effectiveness

Increase IT

Efficiency

Trusted, scalable

& secure

Alignment,

accountability &

ownership

Collaborative

across your

value chain

Familiar interface

& tools you own today

Self-service

access & insight



7

IT management

& developer

productivity

Empower

Your People

Improve

Organizational

Effectiveness

Increase IT

Efficiency

Trusted, scalable

& secure

Alignment,

accountability &

ownership

Collaborative

across your

value chain

Familiar interface


Self-service

access & insight





8

IT management

& developer

productivity

Empower

Your People

Improve

Organizational

Effectiveness

Increase IT

Efficiency

Trusted, scalable

& secure

Alignment,

accountability &

ownership

Collaborative

across your value

chain

Familiar interface


Self-service

access & insight






Self-service report authoring

Report Builder 3.0

Familiar Microsoft Office Interface

Rich Visualizations

Powerful Query Designer

PowerPivot & SharePoint lists as data sources

Report Part Gallery for “grab and go” report design experience


Refreshed viewer look and feel

Smooth and fluid navigation experience (AJAX Report

Viewer)

Updated Report Manager. Workflow optimized (no need to

preview report to access its properties or manage it)

Updated Report Manager look and feel


Report Part Gallery

Capitalize on Existing Reports

Reusing common report elements helps to accelerate report creation, cut down costs, and increase end-user adoption. SharePoint provides the central location for users to access a library of existing reports and

identify desired reusable content


Provisioned Shared data source AND Data sets

Leverage years of report building investment

Shred 100s of reports into 1000s of ready to use report part by End

users

IT manages report part queries and look and feel

Report as managed secured data source to PowerPivot

ATOM Data feed

No change to report needed, just upgrade 2005/2008 server to

2008 R2 and report are Data feed enabled automagically.


Powerful designers

Built into the Enterprise IDE

Leveraging Sharepoint collaboration and search corporate platform

Visual Studio

SharePoint

Office Client experience Browser


All Data Structured

Semi Structured

Unstructured

Spatial… Acquired, enriched and deployed through an End to End platform…


ADO.Net:

Teradata, Oracle, SQL, DB2, SSAS, SAPBW, Hyperion Essbase

New in R2: PowerPivot, Sharepoint list, SQL Azure, SQL Parallel Data Warehouse

OLEDB:

Informix, Sybase…

XML

ODBC

Text, Excel, CSV File…


ATOM

Feed

Published

Reports

Data

Sources

Encapsu-

lating

Reports

SharePoint

Farm

Report-Based

Data Feeds

Encapsulating Data Sources

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 Data feed capabilities are provided out of the box in every report



2001 2002 Total

1,115 1,331 2,446

152 642 794

11,156 13,312 24,468

1,523 6,421 7,944

13,946 21,706 35,653

Retail Odin

Bikes, Inc.

Wholesale ABC Corp.

Thor, Ltd.

Grand Total

Customer

Retail

Odin

Bikes, Inc.

Wholesale

ABC Corp.

Thor, Ltd.

Grand Total

Growth

19%

322%

19%

322%

56%

Tabl ix e+Matr

1,267 1,973 3,230 56%

12,679 19,733 32,412 57%


Tablix = Best of Both Worlds ++

Matrix plus:

Multiple parallel row/column members at each level

Each member may be dynamic or static

Optional omission of member headers

Table plus:

Dynamic, nested column groups

Multiple parallel row groups

Static rows

Optional spanning row headers


Table Chair

WA Seattle 20 30

Spokane 10 20

OR Portland 10 10

Eugene 25 5

2005 2006

WA Seattle 50 60

Spokane 30 40

OR Portland 40 50

Eugene 20 30

Current

Desired

Year Product

2005 2006 Table Chair

WA Seattle 50 60 20 30

Spokane 30 40 10 20

OR Portland 40 50 10 10

Eugene 20 30 25 5

Parallel Dynamic Groups


State City Pop Area

WA Seattle 20 30

WA Spokane 10 20

OR Portland 10 10

OR Eugene 25 5

State City 2005 2006 Pop Area

WA Seattle 50 60 20 30

Spokane 30 40 10 20

OR Portland 40 50 10 10

Eugene 20 30 25 5

2005 2006

WA Seattle 50 60

Spokane 30 40

OR Portland 40 50

Eugene 20 30

Current

Desired

Mixing Dynamic and Static Columns


Stepped or Block grouping

Pivot

Custom

Subtotals

Non-pivot

columns

Nested controls Multi-Pivot

Custom

Headers

Highly flexible layout options


Most Flexible with Multiple Layout Targets

Render to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, XML, TIFF…

Support diverse industry and regional layout requirements

Enable pixel perfect reports with interactivity and animation

High resolution printing

Report Builder Word

PDF

HTML

Excel



Extensive Visualizations


Chart Examples

Scale Breaks

Frame Effects


Chart Examples

Multiple Chart Areas

Calculated Series

Strip lines

Multiple Legends


Gauge

2 Main Gauge Types

Radial and Linear

Scenarios

Typically bound to a single or a few data points

(value, target, goal, etc.)

Perfect for Analysis Services KPIs

Stand-alone or embedded in a tablix (bullet graph)


Gauge Samples

Radial Gauge Linear Gauge


Tablix Visualizations: Sparklines & Data Bars

Sparklines

“Data intense, word-sized graphics” – Tufte

Automatic axis alignment. All charts can have the same data points, regardless of source data

Can be converted into full charts to support additional small multiple scenarios

Data Bars

Usually depicts a single value in a cell

Min and Max are automatically determined, but are configurable

Sparklines Data Bars


Tablix Visualization: Indicators

Icons used to depict the status against a value, goals or a trend

Report authors can create their own sets or choose from several pre-configured sets

Colors, Icon and Size can be changed based on data.

Automatic support for comparing each member of a group against siblings

Can also be placed inside gauges


Support for SQL Spatial

Integration with Virtual Earth tiles

Data Grouping Equal intervals, equal distribution, optimal, user-defined

Multiple Map layers


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